Mommy-yeoh

Baby J is 9 months and 2 days old. And had his very first hair cut yesterday. I did a quick 'chop' of his hair while he was busy occupying himself with toys. His hair was getting a bit too long at the sides and beginning to curl a little. Some people commented that he looked like a girl! Can't say I did a fantastic job on the haircut but so long as he doesn't look like a girl is good enough for me. To me, Baby J is growing so much faster than Little Princess. I guess being busy at work and home, I don't realised how much time has passed me by. It only seems like yesterday that I was pregnant with Baby J. It wasn't an easy pregnancy. With a 4 yo on toll, it literally took my sanity away. It was filled with mood swings and morning sickness (round the clock)! I stare at the toilet 'throne' more than I stare into Daddy-yeoh's face! I felt bloated all the time and shortness of breath was a norm to me. Since Little Princess was an induced labor, I only get...

Just went I thought Little Princess is out growing her cough, she got it again yesterday with the phelgm and all. The doc tor siad its due to her underdeveloped breathing track and coupled with my family history of asthmatic genes, she can be sensitive to anything under the sun including dust. The doctor assured us that this is common among children and they will grow out of it. The bright side, her condition is not serious enough to be out on a chamber. But the BIG question is when will she grow out of it??? I tried all sorts of methods from western to chinese (and even trying suggestions found in forwarded emails) but the cough keeps coming back every 2 weeks or so. The most difficult part was each time she has her cough, she will vomit all her milk or meals. The mess, oh how I hate the mess! And each time she has the cough in the night, I can never have a good rest because I will be waking up and checking on her throughout the night, making sure she is fine. Has anyone had such p...

I was trying to wean Little Lady off from sucking her left middle and fourth fingers. She will suck her fingers two together whenever she is sleepy or upset since she was a baby. It was her way of comforting herself. I have to constantly wipe her hands clean. Once she found a chewing gum left by some irresponsible kid/adult and I frantically washed her hand in the public toilet over and over again before she pop her fingers in. It was a very stressful moment for me. I tried pulling her fingers out and telling her no. But she will insist in popping them in and will use all her might to put them in her mouth if I were to hold her hand down. Her constant sucking cause a lump of skin to developed on her fourth finger. I wasn’t worry too much about that but more of what goes in! Last night we spend a little time together at home as Daddy Yeoh was away for a meeting in Church. We played with her Doddle and on it I drew a man and told her the story of Jesus. Then I explained to her that Jesus...

Not being able to blog for almost 2 months plus, make me feel out of touch. Not out of touch with my friends' blogs (I have been keeping track on my blog buddies) but more out of touch with me doing the entries. For the past two months, my Little Lady has grown a little more. Her milestone... She knows her body parts :) except for the *ahem* (if you know what I mean) take instructions from her Daddy and Mummy recognise alphabets learning to use her imagination a little more cheeky wants to wear her own pants and shoes love to take part in activities most of all...LOVES to watch MAMMA MIA!!! (besides Wall E) And the best part, Little Lady's hair is longer now...so Mummy can tie pony tails!

Yesterday, while at work, I called Grandma to check on the Little Lady. Grandma told me her fever was very high despite the paracertamol and Grandma was trying to sponge her at that point of time. 10 minutes later Grandma called to say the Little Lady's left eye was swollen and there were red patches on her forehead. Panic seeps in and in a hurry I left the office. On the way I called the pead in SJMC. I was told he will be on a half day leave, which means I have about 50 minutes or less from my office to Cheras to pick my Little Lady and to SJMC in Subang. I was like "What?!" I told the doctor's PA that I will try my best to reach in time. I called Grandma to get ready. I sped all the way home (sometime my teenage rebellious and mindless behaviour may come in handy in times like this). Reach home and found Grandma carrying my Little Lady in her arms waiting outside the porch. We strapped her in her car seat, jumped into the car and planned out a strategy (not really ...

I was up since 3 plus in the morning. I have 2 down with fever. Dady Yeoh and the Little Lady. I felt her body warm last night but didn't think much of it. Sometimes baby girls have higher temperature but too low for fever. I am always the first to know if she has a fever (without a thermo). Mummy instinct? Or perhaps breastfeeding helps me to familiriaze with her body temperature? Either way I am thankful I have an in-built thermo. At 9.30 p.m. her temperature has gone up to 38.2 C. By the way, that was a reading took from a thermo :). Gave her paracertamol from the frigde and put a wet towel on her forehead. When she felt asleep, I put on the Kool-Fever for her. At around 3 or so in the morning, her body turned to my side and rest half her body on my side. I woke up feeling the heat and realised that her temperature was really high. Gave her another dose of paracertamol. Woke Daddy Yeoh up but Daddy Yeoh was drowsy from the medication he took. When her fever refused to subsid...

I took leave about 2 weeks ago, to take care of Sara while Grandma made a mad rush to the immigration department to renew her passport for her overseas trip end of this month. So it was just me and the Baby. Took Sara to the in door park in Bangsar Village II. It was her first and mine (as in taking Sara to an indoor park). They charged a whopping RM10 per entry per kid but the parents go in for free. So the kid gets to play the whole day and we can go in and out of the park for a little shopping and meals. Being first timer in an indoor park, all Sara did was to pick up all the balls she found on the floor and threw them back into the ball pit. After a good fifteen minutes, did she then dipped herself in the ball pit while Mummy looks on. We were there for an hour or so and left for lunch. But before that Sara refused to return the ball into the ball pit and held on tightly. Since it is a kid’s zone, the staffs were equipped for situations like this and swiftly took out a balloon in e...

After her first visit to the pead last Monday, Sara has been feeling not well again since Friday. And throughout the weekend, she was having mild fever off and on. I took half day on Monday to take her to the pead for the second time. This time round, she has a bit of redness in her throat. She is also having cough with phlegm and flu. She has no more fever since Sunday so it was a good sign. But the Baby was extremely sticky to me. On Tuesday I took the whole day off so that I can spend some time nursing her. Knowing that I am home with her, she was exceptionally whiny. She won’t want to be left alone and worst, she only wants Mummy to carry her the whole time. I have to put her on the kitchen counter top while I poured myself a drink. I have to put her on the bed while I get dressed. I have to carry her while I heat up her food. I have to put her in the sling strapped to me while I hang the clothes…it was endless. She was practically ‘glued’ to me. There will be times that she will w...

Sara was down with flu since last Thursday. Got the bug from her Grandpa. But even then she was still the happy little girl, playing on her own without much fuss. Occassionally she cried while we tried to clear her nose. Except of course when she sees Mommy home from work, the 'magnet-mania' turned automatically on and zzzz-thud! She clings to my leg like a little monkey with her hands and legs wrapped around me and whining for me to carry her. Actually she has been doing this for the past one week of so ( before she even got the flu ), making it difficult for Mommy to even put her down for awhile to go to the bathroom. The moment I placed her on the floor explaning I needed to relieve myself, she will sit on the floor and cried loudly till I pick her back up. And this only happens when she is with me. I was hoping it is a phase that she is going through for now and will soon end. We took her for tim-sum on the weekend. Food is usually her favourite thing, but somehow she doe...

Sara is quite a foodie. Just like her Mommy :) She loves food. She enjoys every moment of it. She loves even a plain bread and rice. Mommy is hoping that she will just stay the same. As in not givng Mommy a problem and become a picky eater. But only one thing that she doesnt like...egg. Not soft boil, or hard boil or scramble or egg tart. She will spit anything with eggs on it. Except when you fry it with rice. I have allowed Sara to feed herself. But it was a terrible mess. I got then got smarter and put newspaper underneath her high chair. But I forgot that the rice sticks to the table and I had a hard time cleaning that too. At the end of a meal, I will have a dirty high chair, a dirty table and a dirty baby. Instead of Daddy 'automatically' washes the dishes, now I have to ask Daddy if he wants to wash the dishes or wash the Baby. But if she enjoys it, I guess a little more time spent on cleaning for Mommy is okay .

Chinese New Year was something that I looked forward to when I was young but not when I began to hate to travel in the midst of the holiday season getting stuck in traffic jams as if the daily traffic wasn’t enough for me already. This CNY was bad. Daddy hurt his back and had to lie down. It got me worried that I might get stuck in in the small town. Sara was whiny throughout the reunion dinner in a hot stuffy, over-crowded, filled smoked restaurant with lousy dishes. After the third dish and having to wrestle with a whining toddler, I decided that I had enough of dinner. But occasionally I enjoyed myself too, playing PS 2 with my in-laws on the dancing mat, while Daddy, like any other year, will lock himself together with his brothers playing Counter Strike. The one who really enjoyed herself would be Sara. She danced, she jumped, she ate, she played, she ate, she slept and she aeat some more! But it was also the time where she discovered the ugly truth that she can scream while cryin...

'Sara was caught on camera trying to blow her little air-blown strawberry ball after watching Daddy doing it' The New Year was barely 'warmed up' and I have taken an emergency leave the day after Thaipusam just because I miss my baby. I have done this before once, out of the spur of the moment I felt the need to take off from work just so I could be home with Sara. The day before, on Thaipusam, We spend the entire day with Sara. We took her swimming which she enjoyed, and the rest of the day were spent playing, tickling, reading and sleeping. Then Daddy had an idea and recorded Sara’s little voice saying ‘mum,mum,mum,ma’ while I was in the kitchen preparing dinner. Daddy set the recorded voice as my ringing tone much to my delight and Sara’s amusement. Next day, while I was stuck in traffic on the way to work, I played the voice recording over and over again. Big mistake! 5 minutes listening to it, I called Daddy and told him that I needed to go home because I think Sar...

Sara's collection of toys are usually from my nephew who outgrew them. At my mom's place, there is a Toyogo box full of toys for the 2 kids to keep themselves occupied. This is Sara busy ransacking the box of toys in Grandma's house, looking for whatever that might interest her. I noticed that Sara will always do this with the Toyogo box... She will sit beside the box and tilt it towards her with one hand, while stretching her little neck studying the contents in the box carefully for a few seconds before she finally reaches in with her other hand and digs in. Each toy that she pulls out, she will give a long good look at it while keeping the box tilted with her other hand, shake it a little as if all it's a rattle then look at it again and if she finds it interesting, she will let go of the box and play with the toy. If the toy somehow does not appeal to her, she will threw it over her shoulder and study the contents of the box again before she reaches in for another t...

Brought a little bundle to office on Tuesday, much to the delight of my colleagues. Woken up at 5.45 a.m. to the ringing tone of my handphone. I have always hated morning and midnight calls. Its usually something not good. In a dazed, I was frantically looking for my phone. Found it on top of Sara's chest of drawers. My mom was on the other line, telling me that she has to send my nephew to the emergency as he was having a high fever. Unfortunately, my bro-in-law and my dad were both away in overseas and out of state. So it's up to the ladies. But it also meant one thing...Sara with no one to take care of until my mom returns from the ER. At 7.00 a.m., all dressed for work, I followed Daddy around the house as he was getting ready for work like a love sick puppy, asking him what should I do with Sara. Should I take emergency leave? No, too much work. Daddy take half day off? Me take half day off... Finally, I decided I have to go to work. Packed Sara's bag, changed her diap...

Daddy gave me an advanced Christmas present last weekend...a new digital camera for me to take photos and video recordings. Yay! Of course my pictures will not be as good as Daddy's Sony Alpha. So there shall be more photos soon in my blog...once I learned to upload it in the computer :) And Sara gave Mummy and Daddy a new present too over the weekend...two little white teeth. A moment we have been waiting for. Whew! And I thought she will be a late teeth 'bloomer'.

Sara started to clap. She will clap her hands when we tell her so, and she will get really excited about it. Yesterday night, Daddy did a trick by stuffing the edge of the tissue up in his nostril and blows hard at it so that the tissue will fall off from his nose. Sara was so tickled by it that she will laugh at the sight of Daddy doing it. We were amused by her little laughter. I then told her to clap her hands. And each time Daddy blows the tissue, she will laugh and put her little hands out and clapped. Daddy said that we better enjoy all this before she starts to get naughty :)

Sara is 9 months today! Yea! Happy 9 months old Sara! Daddy sends me an email on 50 reasons why its fun being a parent. Here is a list of my own: Smelling the best smell…a sleepy baby Sitting up breastfeeding my baby while she smiles at me, feeling content and happy Being ever so tired but yet feeling happy at the same time Having my baby’s tiny fingers wrapped around my finger which she finds it so fascinating and oh how she will look and study my hand Listening to my baby’s laughter and squeal to our silliness Feeling amazed to know that I am the only one (besides Daddy) can comfort the little bundle Realizing that everyone is attracted to my baby and everyone wants to talk to me Watching my baby sleeps beside me and how every time she will stay close by and left me sleeping at the edge of the bed Feeling proud knowing that my baby wants me to hold her each time she caught sight of me Experiencing the joy holding a sleeping baby in my arms Being infectious with my baby’s smile and la...

It has been a sticky weekend. Sara just refused to be in the playpen or in her little chariot. She will cry until we pick her up. Whenever she caught sight of me, she will be whinning for me to hold her. Daddy and me seemed to be playing pass the whole weekend. Passing Sara from one to another. Sara in her chariot Sara had also been a little bit difficult when its time for her bedtime. She will keep crawling to the door wanting to be out from her bedroom. Each time I put her down on her mattress, thinking that she was asleep, she will immediately pop her head right up. With that I will quickly lie down pretending to be asleep. I have tried everything from letting her suckle, singing to her, rocking her and turning off all lights in the house but yet she just refused to stay put on her mattress. While Daddy and me were running on low batts, she was just like the Energizer Bunny. We took her to mom's place tonight and she was fast asleep on the way home before 8.30p.m. I was hoping t...

Sara can sit! Yay! And this is one proud Mummy! I must really get myself a camera phone. Sorry no pic to post. She has been learning to sit by holding on to us with one hand to steady herself. Yesterday, she was able to sit on her own without support for a record breaking time which is 5 seconds. She started by sitting with her legs stretched out and her head hung low while keeping both hands by her side. When she got a bit more confident, she slowly lift her head up but once her head is up, she will just topple over as if her little head was too heavy to handle. She drew laughter from her Grandma and Tai Yee. But Sara did not give up and tried and tried until she got to sit by herself with her head up. By evening, she was able to sit with a wobbly body like jello while her hands will reach out to grab toys lying beside her. And by late evening, my little one was able to sit with her little head held high. With each successful trial, I will clap my hands and encourage her. I got Joash ...

Sara about 5 to 6 months old with her bandana Dress from Medan gift from Tai Yee Rattle from Uncle Jimmy & Aunty Li Li Sara having her meal Sara with more meal shot